Gagne is a low risk high reward move. Clearly he has skills, its like you said can he stay healthy? I hope so, I always like him and thought he was a class act.

Gagne however has a tremendous amount of skill. He really can have a 30-35 goal season very easily. The big problem with him is injury. The guy is never healthy. IMO thats why the Flyers let him go. Had been a guy that stayed healthy he would still be a Flyer. The sad thing is most likely he won’t help L.A. at all. My guess is he plays 25-40 games this year. I hope for his sake he plays a lot but i doubt it will happen. I will always miss gags and hope he does get it together and stay healthy.

As far as Richards goes the Kings made stupid mistake. They let Ticket sales influence a trade. Schenn is going to not only be a better player than Richards in the long run, I would bet the house he out produces him this season if given the chance to play. Not only that, while think richards will have more points I think Simmonds ends up being more important to the Flyers than Richards to the Kings and I think he ends up with more Goals than Richards.

L.A. got worked real bad in this trade. In fact 5 years from now we will look at this trade as one of the most lopsided trades in the history of the NHL. Schenn is going to be 100 point a year guy and a great two way forward and Richards is going to exposed as good defensive forward who doesn’t put up points when he plays on a les stalented team. Richards is also a problem for coaches. Stevens who claims to “love” Richards is just spew bull poop right now as everyone in philly knows Stevens lost his job here because both Richards and Carter (the teams leaders) quit on him. Half my family routes for L.A. as they live there, and i hope for them L.A. does well. But after trading a future superstar in schenn i just don’t see how it happens.